Juneteenth celebrated all over Houston area

As Milwaukee's summer festival season is in effect, the Milwaukee Juneteenth Day Street Festival is set to celebrate its 46th year on June 19th, 2017.

When the slaves were freed, in 1865, they held rodeos, went fishing, had barbecues, payed baseball.

Blunt said Youth Challenge League Program has been volunteering at the Juneteenth celebration for the last six years. "So, we feel it's our mission to educate the community".

Juneteenth marks the day General Gordon Granger gave the news of freedom to slaves in Texas on June 19, 1865 in Galveston. I've talked to some grown people that were here today, and they didn't even know about Juneteenth. Things were different back in the day. They had peaceful good times. "We have to continue to fight".

Decades later, a celebration of freedom brought hundreds to Woldert Park in Tyler.

Cahokia Mayor Curtis McCall attended the event. No bond with them, no knowledge of what they've been through you can't help them through hard times like they've helped you through yours, " said Wiggins. "We are reaching out to our neighbors".

Steve Hoff of Buffalo said culture is one of the main reasons, apart from the motorcycle show, that he visits for both days every year. Previous year the celebration attracted more than 70,000 people over two days. It is important to know everyone's history.

Horskins, of St. Louis, was among the many area residents who came out to Beckett Park Sunday for the second annual celebration of what the organizer called "America's second Independence Day".

McCall said he would have liked to see a larger crowd attend the event.

"A lot of people aren't really born to be with horses". "I just didn't think they'd contribute to a black event, but they surprised me".

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Phil Mickelson was also in the mix on Sunday, but veered off track with a triple-bogey on the 12th hole to trickle back. A birdie on the 15th saw Berger move clear of the pack, which at one point included nine players tied for the lead.

That changed in Game 4, when Arvidsson snapped a 15-game goalless drought in a 4-1 win against the Pittsburgh Penguins. We need to have guys to continue to play the game at a high level because of where we're at in the season right now.

For the Mayweather v McGregor fight to hit the $1bn mark it would likely need to double its pay-per-view sales. Holm expects more cross-over challenges - between UFC fighters and professional boxers - in the future.

He also saw endorsements from every Democrat in the state legislature and three of Virginia's four Democratic members of Congress. A better way to put it may be that the Republican Party is heading out the back door and into the backwoods where it belongs.

A day earlier, the Senate voted to adopt an amendment to the bill that would expand sanctions against Russia, CBS News reported . The bill includes a mechanism requiring congressional review of any decision to ease the Russian Federation sanctions.

The Times newspaper headline "May takes cover" also used a sub-heading "Police protect PM as Grenfell death toll rises". She stood for a minute's silence at the start of her birthday parade on Saturday.

Fowler and Reed will command plenty of attention, but do not discount Kim Si-woo, who sits between the American duo at nine under. "I'll probably go back to the house, pack up and then I'll come back and have a beer and watch the closing stretch".

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